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I have this 862MB base.tgz image which is taking a considerable amount of time to decompress on every pbuilder invocation, I've read that there exist a cow alternative who keeps the files uncompressed ...

I am creating a package using cmake. Everything works fine, although somehow, with pbuilder (and only with pbuilder), by program gets re-configured during make install. This can happen if a file or ...

I've been inspecting different howto's and guides on how to build packages lately. And there seems to be a lot of ways one could go about it. So I'm a bit confused about what exactly to use. That is ...

Before releasing packages to Debian (and later sync them to Ubuntu) I need to test them in a sid chroot, but I get this error on a clean 14.04 system:
$ sudo DIST=sid ARCH=i386 pbuilder create
[sudo] ...

I'm attempting to build a package using pbuilder, and would prefer to not install build dependencies on my host computer so I can keep it clean. Whenever It try to build a package, I get the following ...

We have developed a network pub/sub communication suite. It is in use across a number of different applications and domains, most notably on our payloads aboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...

From my point of view at the moment git-buildpackage is only intended for using upstream sources which are not in the same repository.
I already have a git-buildpackage repository with the branches ...

I am using pbuilder-dist to build my packages for Debian unstable and Ubuntu Precise. I want to know how to run lintian (and possibly other commands) inside a certain chroot.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 on ...

I'm following this tutorial on the Ubuntu on how to fix a bug, but am encountering a problem when I try to build the source package. In the section entitled 'Testing the fix', the reader is told to ...

I'm packaging software at work and the scope has increased to have Lucid-based as well as Karmic-based versions. Right now I just build inside a Karmic vm using git-buildpackage calling debuild, but ...